“Coaching, in the capacity I serve, facilitates an experience where a mother will learn more of her authentic strengths, resources, and skills while making choices from HER values. Until a mom is connecting with her truest Innate sense, is functioning from a place of her well being and health, ​she can't serve her children (or others) to her potential.” Lisa Engle, OptiMOM Coaching

​Why OptiMOM Coaching?

It's been affirmed again and again that without an authentic connection to my own nature, my personal strengths and gifts, I will not experience an authentic and true connection with my children (or any other relationship for that matter).

Much of the work I do as a Certified Health Coach is to hold the posture of a reflective partner who will help you define (through tested methods and questions) the ideal, unique, and most well vision and version of you.

By holding a mirror for you to continually see your picture, we will collaboratively design the best path to experience your ideal and optimal life. What is "well" for you will look different than for your neighbor. (...and very potentially will look different for you a week, month or year from now)

It's time. Let's get started.

You not only deserve to care for yourSelf, you have a responsibility to do so.

At OptiMOM Coaching™, the vision of a well world is held at it's center with great recognition that to raise well children, we need well parents.

OptiMOM Coaching is not here to "fix" you. OptiMOM Coaching is here as a mirror to facilitate seeing and experiencing your optimal potential, courage, and incredible value so that you can mother from (and experience) that powerful, influential, and critically important role as "mom".

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Coaching Defined:

“Coaching” can be defined as “a developmental strategy that enables people to meet their goals for improved performance, growth or career enhancement.” This definition differs from the model some of us tie to athletics: one where an authority figure telling people what to do differently. In my definition, the focus is on the “coachee” rather than the coach. In my model, the "coachee" is the expert, the coach simply asks the right questions and reflects the truths needed for optimal performance and function. In this model, the coachee has a goal that the coach helps him or her to meet through a relationship that involves two-way dialogue rather than one-way telling. The focus is positive and objective, on particular improvements that the coachee wants, rather than on obstacles, deficiencies and limiting factors.

﻿​What are Wellness Coaches?

Wellness Coaches work together in a collaborative relationship with an individual or group. The focus and support facilitate discovering the "best self" with an emphasis on well being and a healthier living. The role of the coach is to uncover the personal values and reasons for pursuing greater expression of wellness, to identify and enhance motivations for change and offer a supportive partner in that journey.

Wellness Coaches are trained experts in establishing safe relationships and practice core coaching skills that are rooted in evidence based research. These methods assist an individual or group in identification, inspiration for action, and support for lasting change over time. In this collaborative model, there is great respect for the client as the expert in his/her own life, using a strength-based focus, drawing from the authentic expression of that individual or group.

The following Wellcoaches School of Coaching definition that sums it up perfectly.With a focus on building self-efficacy, professional coaches are trained to:• accept and meet us where we are today; • ask us to take charge;• guide us in doing the mindful thinking, feeling, and doing work that builds confidence;• help us define a higher purpose for health and well-being;• uncover our natural impulse to be well; • help us tap into our innate fighting spirit;• address mental and physical health together;• assist us to draw a personal wellness, health, or fitness blueprint;• help us to set and achieve realistic goals (small victories lay the foundation for self-efficacy); • harness the strengths we need to overcome our obstacles;• reframe obstacles as opportunities to learn and grow;• enable us to build a support team; and• inspire and challenge us to go beyond what we would do alone.

Please visit the What To Expect page to better understand what this looks like at OptiMOM Coaching™.

"Wellness isn't about deprivation and it's not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself to get comfortable with your highest potential, and then taking small steps to support that shift. It's about showing up for yourself, day by day, and then one day finding that you've undergone a transformation." - Kathy Freston